Word: lanes
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...splattered all over, like the rotten eggs that used to decorate Dad's DeSoto on mischief night. The series, called Rebel Highway, is premiering a movie a week each Friday through Sept. 16. Taken together, this seamy decalogue shows the '50s as a neat place to visit -- a lovers' lane accessible from a killer drag strip -- but hell to live through. Each movie revives the battles between tough guys and sweet chicks; each recalls hot sex before the pill and those enduring teen compulsions: to rebel and to belong...
...Auburn St. project, however, will not stop as much traffic as work on DeWolfe St. did--one lane of traffic will remain open on Mt. Auburn St. until the project is completed sometime late next month, Culver said...
...Shadow" also boasts well-rounded, well-acted characters. As Cranston's sort-of girlfriend Margo Lane, Penelope Ann Miller manages to be both sexy and sharp, using her spotty telepathic powers to help out Cranston. Lane's father Reinhardt is the classic absorbed-in-his-work scientist (who can't tell the difference between red and green), but Ian McKellen gives the character a subdued charm...
Usually that would be clear right away. But this piece is talking about "The Lion King," and for the past few weeks, any mention of the movie overheard by the reviewer has been accompanied by a mention of Anthony Lane's review in that august journal...
This review differs from Lane's in two small but important ways--first, it's being printed in a newspaper, not a magazine; second, it's fairly positive. Lane's harsh words notwithstanding, "The Lion King" is one of the better movies of the summer...